Constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity—this is CrossFit.

To create functionally fit individuals is a primary goal of CrossFit, and an efficacious way of measuring or operationally defining fitness is in an athlete’s ability to do more work faster and across variable domains over time—increased work… Continue Reading

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“I can’t help it if I get nervous,” says Jessica Pamanian, fourth-place finisher at the 2010 CrossFit Games. She’s in Key West, Fla. to compete in the 2011 CrossFit Games Open. Meeting her in Mallory Square is Tom Rowland, a CrossFitter and host of the television show Saltwater Experience. The two share a passion for food and CrossFit.

Rowland says he was a wrestler in school and found himself in an athletic… Continue Reading

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Jeff Martin of CrossFit Kids says young lifters require constant supervision. In this video, Martin discusses exactly how to keep kids safe and explains his guidelines for preschool, kids and teen classes. Based upon the research introduced by Dr. Jon Gary in his previous video Weightlifting and Kids, Martin shows how to run a safe and effective Kids program.

“If we know that a kid gets stronger from learning to do the movement… Continue Reading

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Mike Warkentin ventures into the savage heart of the Arnold Sports Festival.

People are lined up for the Arnold Fitness Expo long before it opens.

The line stretches almost from one end of the Columbus Convention Center to the other. It passes the gymnastics hall, the powerlifting and Oly platforms, the boxing and MMA rings, as well as the CrossFit Kids station and the Grand Ballroom that’s home to the CrossFit competition.

The CrossFit Journal is a chronicle of the empirically driven, clinically tested, and community developed CrossFit program. Our mission is to provide a venue for contributing coaches, trainers, athletes, and researchers to ponder, study, debate, and define fitness and collectively advance the art and science of optimizing human performance.